I suspect everyone who has ever done any mobiling will have opinions. For my
two kopeks ....
Fifty watts with an AVAILABLE and RELIABLE 200 - 500 watt mobile amp would be
quite reasonable, although a 100 watt rig with no amp would probably win the
low list price derby.
With the exteme scarcity of places moden vehicles provide to mount a rig a
detachable faceplate with a STOCK 25 foot extension cable would also be good. A
decent faceplate mount is extremely desireable. Leave Mickey's engineering to
other marques. It should have sufficent audio to be heard over the road noise
- and an included high efficency speaker - preferably with audio DSP. Having to
buy a kit piece by piece to get it mounted is annoying.
Any rig designed for mobile use should have the mininum number of faceplate
controls to distract a driver - tuneng, tune, volume, bandswitching (band up
only if it's necessary to use a single pushbutton but two button bandswiching
would be better), filtering, and mode; key and mike jacks on the faceplate are
all that are really necessary for mobile use. Other controls could be on a menu
system. The controls and buttons should be sufficently distinct that they can
be manipulated by feel alone.
'S enough.
73 Pete Allen AC5E
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